7 docs tagged with "leadership"

The authors of the book Extreme Ownership were once task unit leaders of US Navy SEAL in Iraq. They draw on their experiences in the battlefields and conclude five rules for successfully leading a Navy SEAL team, providing useful references for any organization.

We engineers often boast about leadership without a clear definition of what we are saying. Here are the definitions to distill the clarity from those chaotic ramblings of the mass.

Jim Collins' Good to Great argues that companies make the leap by combining Disciplined People, Disciplined Thought, and Disciplined Action — pushing a flywheel until it breaks through. Notes on the three pillars, what holds up 20+ years later, what hasn't, and how to apply it without misreading the retrospective-bias problem.

Simon Sinek's Golden Circle — why, how, what — is a communication framework that explains why some pitches land and others don't. Notes on the biological underpinnings, concrete examples beyond Apple, how to apply it inside a product org, and the common failure modes when teams misuse it.

The bozo explosion is what happens when a company scales by hiring professional managers who can manage but can't do. Steve Jobs' diagnosis, why it keeps recurring at the 50-200 person stage, how to spot it in your own org, and when hiring career managers is actually the right call.

To improve the chances of success in persuading decision-makers, the way of message delivering should be considered carefully. There are five decision-making categories and they should be treated with different strategies.

How to evaluate the performance of a technology leader? Each company or individual has its own answer with engineering rubrics. And those rubrics usually focus on a specific role - IC (Software Engineer, Product Manager, Designer) or Engineering Manager. Is there a grand unified framework to evaluate the potential business impact that a technology leader could make?